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Well, as a huge She-ra fan I'd say the character I want the most is She-ra indeed, with her Filmation hair and costume. Add Adora, in her red and white costume, Catra with her Filmation-styled horde outfit, Shadow Weaver, and that would be a good start. Those 4 characters are some of the more highly sought after so I think they'd sell like hot cakes.

Originally Posted by Emiliano

The harsh reality is that the Horde were originally intended for POP, and they have always been intended for POP. Filmation developed the characters for the POP cartoon. It's a fact.

Toyguru - I can't tell you how happy I am that you've started a thread like this. It's the first time Mattel have expressed such an interest in hearing our opinions on Filmation characters being created for the MOTUC line and I'm absolutely thrilled.

I do honestly believe that characters like Scorpia, Shadow Weaver and Octavia would be better sellers than the likes of Rotar and Twistoid - heck, I'd imagine they'd be bigger sellers than *most* of the obscure characters because of their public appeal and the 'rare' factor too.

It would be a huge coup for Mattel to produce these figures and would prove beyond all doubt that the company has the fans in heart and mind. It would also serve to strengthen the MOTU/POP mythos in time for the movie and any future franchise opportunities.

My list could go on and on, as I'd buy most Filmatin-inspired figures. The ones I wouldn't go for would be the likes of Malik from Wizard of Stone Mountain because - despite him being a defined character - his look was fairly dull, power minimal and he was used again and again as a 'stock' background character in many MOTU/POP episodes. My favoured choices would be the obvious:

Dylamug - who I believe *can* already be made by Mattel, as his designs for a toy were featured in Tomarts not so long ago. This came before the Filmation series. I'd also investigate Octavia who has been named as another who was designed by Mattel and then used in the series only very briefly and the rumoured prototype figures of Shadow Weaver and ScorpiaHunga the Harpy
Granita - female rock-personVultak
Imp
Entrapta - Filmation-style, perhaps with an added Horde bat symbolHuntara
King Ahgo
General Sunder

Seriously though, I think this is very encouraging. I know you've said that you don't hold the rights at this moment, but just the fact that you're asking the question gives us the hope we've been craving for 25 years.

Wouldn't access to the Filmation characters be an excellent way to celebrate their 25th anniversary?!

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Skeletor and his evil henchmen
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Fangman (Master of reptilian creatures)
"The Time Corridor"http://www.frankshemanpage.net/time07.JPG

Granamyr (oldest and wisest of the dragons)
MOTU: "The Dragon`s Gift", "The Return of Granamyr", "Disappearing Dragons", "Battle of the Dragons"
POP: "Darksmoke and Fire"http://www.frankshemanpage.net/gift08.JPG

In truth TG, you need to get the entire rights for all the Filmation characters and dedecate an entire toyline to making Filmation 100% accurate sculpts (IMO). There are just so many amazing characters that fans want to own. Filmation is the heart of the brand for a large section of the He-Man & She-Ra fan community. You had the courage to start the MOTUC line just on the back of fan support & see how well this has done, well fans WILL support Filmation characters, you know this, it's all we have been shouting about for years.

You should seriously consider making a line of Filmation accurate sculpts in similar to DC JLU figures in scale. Even if you only made a few say He-Man, She-Ra, The Sorceress, Zodak, Hordak, Catra, Shadow Weaver, Skeletor, Evil-Lyn, Adam, Adora ect they would sell out in reacord time! But I would also like to see you including Filmation characters with Filmation design influances mixed in with the MOTUC sculpting style for the classics line as well. This way you would be catring to two of the biggest fan groups in
MOTU & POP community, classic Mattel toy fans & Filmation fans = big bucks for Mattel & very very very happy MOTU & POP fans!

Last edited by Angel-T; July 3, 2009 at 12:33pm.

PRO CLASSIC POP TOY DESIGN ELEMENTS BEING USED IN MOTUC TO COMPLEMENT THE FILMATION DESIGNS!!!!

I FULLY SUPPORT THE INCLUSION OF ILLUMINA IN MOTUC!!!!!

IF YOUR SICK OF WAITING FOR A LIGHT TO APPEAR AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL, STRIDE DOWN THERE AND LIGHT THE BLOODY THING YOURSELF!!!!!!!

Everyone has already put up my favorites so I won't list them again but I would subscribe to a line that produces FILMation characters until I owned every one of them no matter how obscure. If they made it on screen, they have a place in my home.

Umm geez all this love for the Filmation cartoon characters is great and the characters being listed are all awesome as for my choices well I'd go with the PoP characters being more Filmation styled. But for actualy characters I'd go with these guys:

Hopefully, MATTEL can get the rights and do FILMATION stuff. It's extremely doubtful that all of this stuff would be made, but who knows? If the line keeps selling the way it is now, I guess anything is possible.